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Quotes About Ocean

You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died. (In The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte)
~ Justin Scott
The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
~ Karen Blixen
Right now, Mama G's memory is like the ocean. It comes and goes, high tide and low tide. But each time, the beach erodes a little bit more.
~ Karen Hawkins
I don't like jellyfish, they're not a fish, they're just a blob. They don't have eyes, fins or scales like a cod. They float about blind, stinging people in the seas, And no one eats jellyfish with chips and mushy peas. Get rid of 'em!
~ Karl Pilkington
All those tiny ancient marine life forms falling to the ocean floor to come back to life one day as a Disney Fairies Tea Set.
~ Kate Atkinson
Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.
~ Kate Atkinson
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
~ William C. Bryant
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
~ William Shakespeare
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?
~ Rumi
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.
~ Gary Larson
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.
~ Simon Baker
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
~ Kary Mullis
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
~ Perry Como
I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.
~ John Feldmann
Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.
~ John Steinbeck
My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.
~ Suzanne Ciani
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
~ Anne Sexton
Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller